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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

instructions to the muscles, and mean
while the judicial faculty of the mind
must decide just what must be done with
that ball when it is gotten hold of, ques-
ton that frequently calls for nice exer-
else of judgment. The fine points of
baseball have of late years made strong
impression upon scientific gentlemen.
The curved delivery of pitchers espec-
tally has puzzled their mighty intellects
and profound and erudite explanations of
the mystery have been given to the
scientific world. A baseball crowd is
one of the most democratic assemblages
in the world. The banker and the
clerk, the employer and the employee,
the minister and his parishioner sit
side by side, and the enthusiasm or
indignation of the one finds response
in the other. There are scarcely ever
any discussions among the spectators !;
the unanimity of opinion is some
thing wonderful. There are two
leading associations in the country
the National League and the Ameri-
can Association. They are governed
by the same rules and differ
only in the price of admission charged.
Each association has a pennant which
belongs for one year to the club which
wins the greatest number of games.
Where and when the games are to be
played is decided early in the year at
general meeting of the managers of the
various clubs. At once this schedule is
given to the public, and a month before
the first game is to be played the ball
lovers are making their preparations to
attend.
The two associations take in the prin-
cipal cities of the country east of and in
Guiding st. Louis. Large grounds are
fenced in and made as smooth as a floor.
Grand stands are erected, where, for
small extra price, one can secure a seat,
while those who are not able or willing
to pay this price seat themselves on the
bleaching boards" huge tiers of seats
built without any covering. On pleas
ant afternoon, when the home team is
scheduled to play with the champions and
there is a possibility of game being won
by the former, the crowd starts early and
is sight worth seeing. The street cars
are crowded, private conveyances and
hacks carry their loads, while large ma
jority walk. Pushing, jostling, hurry
ing each other, the crowd forms in line
and each waits his turn to buy a ticket.
This purchased, there is wild rush for
score card and seat. Outside the
unfortunate small boy has to content
himself with a crack in the fence,
or boldly climbs a telegraph pole and
erches himself ON the cross-piece,
from which vantage ground he cheers,
groans and hurls defiance at the UNI
pire. Other boys bide their time, and
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
IS KISSING UNHEALTHY
The Heresy Lately A dvanced by Some Sci
entific Savants.

Tne heresy Lately n uVanced by Some Sci
entific Savants.
There is Scandinavian tradition to the
effect that kissing was first introduced into
England by Rowena, the beautiful daughter
of Hengist. Again in Cromwelps time, SAYS
the Des Moines (Ia.) Journal, when the ban
ished Cavendish visited French nobleman
at his own chateau, the mistress of the house,
at the head of her maidens, thus greeted
him "Forasmuch as We be an Englishman,
whose custom it is in your country to kiss
all the ladies and gentlewomen without of
Tense, and although it be not so here in this
realm, yet will be so bold as to kiss YOU.
and so shall all my maidens."
And now at this late day the habit, which
is as old as the first courtship and which has
produced barrels and barrels of satisfaction
from the day which is mentioned in the
sixth chapter of Genesis, when "the sons of
God saw the daughters of men that they
were fair" this beautiful habit is condemned
by hard-hearted old scientist, who is prob
ably so repulsive and gloomy that no pretty
woman has ventured to place her pear1y lips
in contact with his cuticle of mucuous mem
brane.
The idea Only think of it. This old fell
low says that kissing is unhealthy, that the
mouth is inhabited by an innumerable num-
Der of animalcule, and that these are set
free in the act of kissing, and pass from one
mouth to another. All right let them come !;
we are not afraid of animalcule.-S Paul
GlobG
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
IN LIGHTER VEIN.
VALUABLE GRADUATES.

II tell you, college graduates are of in
estimable value to the country" remarked
McCorkle.
Eyes, indeed" replied Fangle; they make
excellent baseball players"
81 wasn't thinking of that"
"What were you thinking of?'
81 was thinking of recent statement
that young scientist, graduated from Yale
at the last commencement, has estimated
that every hen in the country scratches over
two acres of ground every year, and that the
legpower in gross would run threshng ma
chine for two weeks. If this thing had not
been so finely figured down, I'd have
thought that the scratch area was ten acres
per hen at least"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

II some lucky player knocks a ball over
the fence what a scramble there is Then
the boy who can find it boldly marches
up to the entrance, walks in and secures a
seat, if he can, on the bleaching boards"
what a lucky boy is he! These boys
nave keener insight into the game than
many man. They know the records of
each player and are able to shout
some popularity at him as he is driven
from the grounds after the game is over.
Inside the grounds, though, the crowd
is patiently waiting for the game to COM
mence. The opposing clubs come out
for practice, and each players work is
watched by keen eyes, commented on,
and If an unusually good play is made,
ne receives hearty applause. But the
game must be promptly started or
there will be trouble. First, a few
boys will begin to beat monotonous time
with the heels of their shoes. Like wild
tre on prairie, 1t spreads, and soon
thousands of feet are banging away and
making a terrible din. 1t is all instantly
stopped, though, as the clang of the bell
is heard and the umpire steps to his
position behind the batter. The home
club has the choice of positions, and can
either take the field or go to the bat. This
is the result of system, and stands away
ahead of old times when the captains of
each club would catch hands on bat.
The last one to get a hold could make
his choice of positions, provided he
could swing the bat three times around
his head. 1t even is far in advance of
that other method at one time so COM
mon among townball players. One side
of the paddle would be wetted, and then
with toss in the air and two cries
OF "Wet" and "Dry" the sides would
anxiously wait for the decision of
chance. The quiet with which the game
commences continues until some play
is made, or decision of the umpire don't
suit. 1t is popularity of this national
game that the smallest boy present
thinks he is just as capable a Judge
as the one chosen by the management
of the association. Nor is the small
boy alone in this. There is not
ho =
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
BEER WANTED IN JAPAN.
Another Step Toward Thoroughly Ger
manizing That Empire.

Another Step Toward Thoroughly Ger
manizing That Empire.
A further and truly characteristic step has
been taken toward the denomination" of
Japan. A japanese professor of chemistry,
T. Nishigawa, is staying in Munich with a
commission to study and report upon the
manufacture of Bavarian beer. He is visit
ing all the great breweries of that capital of
beer and art, and diligently studying the
processes and costs of "Bock" and ''Spaten-
brau." According to the Munich papers, he
either has been or is about to go to England,
in order to pay visit to the great Burton
breweries, and to make a comparison be-
tween the Bavarian and English brewage.
The japanese government is distressed at
the deplorable increase of ''schnapps'' drink
ing among the natives. Instead of sending
to Sir Wilfrid Lawson for a hint how to deal
with the plague it imagines it may be best
cured by supplying the thirsty Japanese
with a palatable and not easily Intoxicating
beer. There is heavy duty upon spirits in
Japan, whereas beer is to be imported free
of duty.-PaU Mall Gazette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
QUIPs.

You can readily distinguish an oarsman by
his row-man nose.
A close observer notices that a mans will
power increases with his wealth
Sometimes it is difficult to find ones SUI
periors under ordinary circumstances, but
you can always find your betters at the horse
races.
A Philadelphia plumber recently fell heir
to 81, 100000. The amount was too small to
trouble about investing, so he gave it to his
little son. WIS.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
A Gamin,s Embarrassing Revenge.

Some few days since a gentleman on the
Asbury-avenue pavilion refused to give a
very small newsboy cigarette light and at
the same time gave him a piece of good adj
vice, telling him that he was too young to
smoke. The boy Immediately became very
abusive and every time he meets the gentle
man he calls him by different name much
to his annoyance, as he found it a hard mat
ter to make people whom he had been intro
duced to believe Just what his name really
was.-Asbsyy Park Journal
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
1T SHOULD NOT BE COSTLY.

Ponsonby-How charming Miss Macbul-
lion looks in full dress
Fitzroy-Superb! By the way, Pm told
her costume cost $1,000.
Ponsonby-O, surely not!
Fitzroy-Why not?
Ponsonby-It doesn't come high, you see
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

TheNew York Sun notices that the Chris
tanned Cinnamon in that city who ordi-
narly wear American clothes go back to
their comfortable Chinese costumes on hot
days, and applauds them for it. The silk
TUNES are cool, and the Sun thinks they
would be becoming and comfortable to av-
erape Americans
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
WHAT BRIDGET WAS WAITING FOR.

Mistress-Isn't there man in the kitchen,
Bridget?
Bridget-Yes, mum, that there is!
Mistress-Well, Bridget, don't like you
to entertain company in the kitchen.
Bridget-Indade num- don't like it no
better nor you. We're jist waitin' for yez to
lave the parlor.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
PENNIES ERROR.

'Do you know Pennibs, the telegraph
editor of the Daily Bloppipe?" asked Biggs.
yes" replied Quimby; "why?"
when he went on the paper he was very
inexperienced. One day dispatch came in
about man being roughly handled out West
for claim jumping, and Pennibs ran it
under the head of sports'"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

and muscle that hu-
man physique can at
tain. Fine field play
implies an alertness
of attention and ia
cility of action that
are simply marvel
Gus. When a ball
bounds like a rico
chetting cannon-shot
across the field, it's
course and bounds
must be noticed in an
infinitesimal part of
a second, the nerves
must telegraph pre-
else and minute
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
MABEL's REASON.

"Get up, Mabel" said a Pittsbtrg mother
to her little daughter, cts breakfast time"
II duzzent want to-" replied the little girl.
20, you must. Remember that the early
bird catches the first worm
"I'se dot worms now" was Mabels con-
elusive reply.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17
"JUDGMENT."
SOME POINTS ON THE GREAT MA
TIONAL GAME.

The Wonderful Delivery of Several Pitch
ers Interesting Scientists-Scenes of En-
thusiasm-MaISing a Home Run-Base-
ball Compared with European Sports.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

l drank. The
tea is made
of the bark
taken from the
r o OTIS an d
dried and it
unquestio ma
bly, possesses
m e dici n a |
qualitie s. I
notice tn a t
large quanti-
ties are x
ported to Eu-
rope,andprob-
ably to some
extent used as
a medic1n e.
Let us take a
stroll this fine
a { t e T n on
with Uncle
E p h r a i m
through tn e
pl n t a t ion
drug st ore;
maybe we will
fndsomething
to interest us.
Before, how
ever, we leave
the gar d e n -,
n office tn e
h a n d 8 o m e
white flower
.AI ~-1--a
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17


And on the flats in huge, rough blocks,
Stand out the famous oyster rocks.
whoa! Geep' and comes the rumbline
cart,
And boy, and numbering oxen team
To bear away a modest part
Of ores; while soft as in dream
The neighboring pines in sad attune,
Watt down lonesome, whispered rune.
But what is that the cart, boy sees
Half wrapped in mingled weeds and sand,
Which makes him stand with trembling
knees,
His pitchfork balanced in his handP
A human drift-the tale is DID,
The dredger's fate so often told.
With shaking hands he lifts the pail,
And scans the face, the form, the dress;
Alas! his ignorance quick reads all
Which such drift can well confess;
And soon he kindly rears mound
Upon the fatal oyster ground.
A drift o, God but Thou dost know
The cruel need, perchance the shame,
The lonely wanderings, the woe,
Which drove this waif without name
To meet this fate and Thou canst tell
Where they still wait who loved him well.
High water on the Hungo's sand,
The flowing tide is rising still,
Though covered every point of land,
And floods the inlets trimming fill
But soft the pines around the shore
Murmur, "He reStS-he drifts no more"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

A structure never yet rose higher than the
Ibition of the architect.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-09-17

man on the seats but is
dead sure that the UNI
pire was wrong, and that
he could give him points
which would largely
increase that officials
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-18
GLEANIhGS.

Fruit of all kinds should be kept
cool.
A clotbespiu apron should have
a place 10 every laundry.
Pieces of stale bread may be
dipped in an egg, fried brown IN
batter, and served as an Omelet.
a tablespoonful of turpentine
boiled with white clothes will
greatly and the whitening process.
For chapped hands dissolve two
ounces of glycerine, two table
spoonfuls of borax, in one pint of
water.
A few ounce seeds boiled in
water and pe1fumed will keep the
hair IN curl longer than the use of
any other preparation.
To set the color in black or dark
hosiery, callcOes, cambrics, etc,
pat large tablespoonful of black
pepper into a pail of water, and let
the articles lie in soak for IA couple
of hours.
To promote the growth OF the
hair take a teacup of sage, steep in
a quart of soft water, strain, add
one.half teaspoOnful Of bOrax and
sponge the head with the mixture,
using a stiff brush.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-18
COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE.

A wedding epidemic has broker
ont in Paris, Ky.
A tailoring firm at Crawfords
vile advertiseS that a marriage
license viii he given every young
man who will buy his wedding suil
OF them.
In a trial at Philadelphia the
other day the fact was brought out
that two young people, who were
neighbors, had been in the habit OF
doing their counting on the roof OF
a housc near by.
John Martin, of Trlmbelville,
Chester county, Pa, cOurted Miss
Est LA webb for twenty years and
then broke marriage engagement,
Now she sues him for 100000, OF
$1,000 a year for his counting.
James b. Bell, who is mention,
ed as having been an eccentric
man, died recently in Middleton,
Conn. He leaves four wives and
has gone to meet three, and at the
time of his death he was prepar-
ing for his eighth marriage.
a young man at TifiD, o., court,
ed a young lady until l o'clock in
tho morning. When he started to
go home he found the door fasten.
ed with wires so that he could not
open it. When he tried to crawl
out of a window he was arrested as
a burglar and had to be identified
by the girl.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-18
An Opportunity for Manure Making,

To preserve a healthful condition,
maintain the vital warmth, and
keep the skin IN proper action
thorough carding and brushing
should not be neglected IN winter
dairy, and the utmost cleanliness
in every respect should be Observ
ed. Abundant supplies of absor
bents, of which dried swamp muck
is the best, and hard wood saw
dust and fresh leaves next, and in
place Of these cut straw, or any
other fine waste material should be
procured. The winter dairy is q
grand opportunity for making ma
nure, aud the Improvement of a
farm, and to this end every posi-
BILE economy in saving and preserv
ing the manure should be exercised.
The feeding must be liberal and OF
the best food. 1t must be regular
in quality, quantity and time be-
cause out of the food the butter
must come, aud in quantity will be
exactly equivalent to the food
given.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-18
An Honest Physicians Candid
Acknowledgment.

Occasionally there are candid and
fearless men in the medical profess
sion who, though strict adherents
and opponents of professional
"ethic" are vet too undetermined to
be hampered by prejudices and su'
perstitiOn about "ethics" when suf-
fering humanity is concerned, men
who will speak the truth as they
know it in behalf of anything, and
TO whom a proprietary medicine is
not scaTe.crOw nor a bugaboO,
simply because 1t goes by that
name, but who investigate its mer.
Its by experiments, and when it
proves to be what it claims to be,
at once step to the front and frank
ly acknowledge its merits and com.
mend it to suffering humsnity
everywhere. Such man is DR.. j.
n. Cheney, an eminent and we'll.
known physician, living at Ella
vile, Schiey county, Georgia, who,
in a letter to the Swift Specific
Company, dated March 81, 1887,
says, in reference TO their famous
medicine
"Your s. s. S. medicine has rev.
OlutiOnized the old school practice
of medicine, of which am bold to
say am a faithful disciple. The
danger of mercurial treatment for
blood poison is known TO all. The
profession has for centuries sought
a harmless cure, but in vain, aud 1t
had become a settled belief that it
could only be cured by mineral and
dangerous treatment. But in your
medicine a safe and harmless cure
for the worst forms Of blood poison
has been found. Your s. s. S. is a
boom to humanity. | have never
Jailed to mako safe, perfect and
permanent cure where the patients
have followed your directions faith.
fully
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis
eases mailed free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Draw
er 3. Atlanta. Ga.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-18
ODDS AND ENDS.

Peddler-Pd like to see the mas
ter OF the house. Mr.. POOdle-Er-
come in and take a seat and III
call my wife.
A Connecticut woman was re-
Gently bereit of the faculty OF
speech by being hit with a snow
bali, and many married men in that
part Of the country have been
heard to remark that, after all ,
winter has advantages not afford
ed by any other season.
A good pastor, n widOwer, pro.
posed to young lady short time
since, but was rejected. His feel.
ings had "A second severe test when
a widow neighbOr sent him the fol-
lowing text to preach from: "You
ask and receive not, because you
ask a miss"
"DO you realize, sir" said long.
haired passenger, "that there is
One who sees and hears all we do,
who can solve our lnmOst thoughts,
and before whom we are but crush.
ed and wormsP
"Give us your hand, stranger"
replied the other. 81 just know
how you ieel. Pm married myself"
When Lieutenant Foulke, of the
United States navy, went to Japan,
some years ago, he was nursed
through dangerous illness by a
lovely japanese girl, with whom he
fell in love. He taught her Eng.
lish she taught him japanese, and
when he comes home, as he soon
will, he will bring her as his wife.
a lady in Dalton, Ga, has a
valuable breastpin. The value
does not consist IN the material Of
which it is made, though that is
the purest and yellowest OF old
gold, but in the fact that within a
circle of diamonds is a genuine
lock of hair that once grew on the
illustrious head of George Wash.
lngtOn.
A constable paid a recent visit
to a drug store in Bangor, Me-, and
here is partial list of some Of the
drugs found Seventeen bottles of
larger beer, bottle with one and
half pints of whisky, four bottles
each containing a gill of whisky,
one bottle with a half pint OF wine,
one bottle with pint of wine, and
a bottle with a pint and a half of
wine, a pint of gin, two quarts Of
alcohol, and two gallons OF alco-
hOl.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-18
WINTER CARE OF COWS.

The arrangement of the barn and
yard should be such as 10 reduce
the labor as much as possible. Ex-
cessive warmth is not conducive
to robustness, health or profit. II
mans house is kept closed up and
heated with stoves to temperature
of eighty degrees, and his food and
drink are all taken hot with Wow
to preventing the effects Of the
cold and to insure more comfort,
the dwelIers in that house will be.
come sick or diseased ; tie impure
air will poison the blood; the
warmth will relax the skin, dry it
and open the pores, and the slight
est draft will cause a fit of shiver
ing and induce dangerous colds
1t is in precisely such houses that
sore throats, diphtheria, scarlet
fever, aud other diseases are so
frequent, while IN the house where
the windows are thrown open to the
breezes, and the cold, brisk, pure
air is welcomed, and exercise and
health give warmth, fed by the
abundant oxygen of the fresh air
cOursing through the blood, there
are health and vigor and comfort.
1t is the same in the dairy. Pleuro-
pneumonia invades those herds
which are kept in close, warm, un.
wholesome stables, and the dread
ed tuberculosis finds there its prey (;
while from the wide airy stable,
well ventilated and filled with pure
cold air, the well.fed cows will
emerge to frOlic in the snow, and
enjoy themselves, in the bright
sunshine and the crisp air, when
the thermometer marks down near
ly to zero. Except in stormy wealth
er, the cows should spend at least
three or four hours every day IN
the yard, picking some rough feed
and getting water and exercise.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-11-18
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
MAgIHG CREAM CHUUN EASILY.

A lady friend, an experienced ana
successful butter maker, thus ex'
plains how she makes the butter
come quickly as cold weather cp,
proaches: She keeps the cream
crock in the cellar as cool as pos
sible, and as the natural result it is
too cool for good butter making
If the cream is directly heated over
the fire it is apt to make soft but
ter, as every housewife knows
What she does is to take quart
or a little more of sweet milk, heat
it quickly over the fire, and then
mix it with the cream already in
the churn, adding enough TO bring
1t up to the right temperature. The
butter comes very quickly by this
method, and is not made soft late
in the season. 1t is not u plan so
we'll adapted to butter making IN
hot weather, for then the cream,
unless kept on ice, usually needs
no warming. Some use hot water
instead of milk, but the advantages
of the latter is that the warm,
sweet milk lmparts better flavor
to the butter and greatly improv es
the buttermilk, besides, of course,
making more of it.
There is probably only n very
small increase of butter that comes
directly from the heated sweet
milk. Possibly this furnishes no
butter; but 1t does separate the
butter particles more perfectly from
the cream than is possible other
wise. The yield of cream and but
ter from milk should under most
circumstances naturally increase
in proportion to the milk as the
amount of the butter is lessened.-
A farrow COW five or six months
after calving gives less but richer
milk than she does az first. But
what avails this to the butter
maker, if be or she cannot separate
the butter from the cream in which
it is enclosed. Adding warm
sweet milk seems to entirely re-
move this difficulty, and has many
other Incidental advantages.-Cut.
trdtOr.